March 12, 2014

EBT Cards Accepted at Lingerie Store

Apparently, if you receive food stamps and a welfare check in Louisiana, all of your benefits are put on your Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card. And well...there are businesses that don't sell food, which also accept EBT card payments.

Should companies like the lingerie store be allowed to accept EBT cards when they apply for permission? Or...should the benefit receiver be allowed to buy whatever they want to buy with, which is rightfully, their money once they've received it? Is limiting what is allowed to be purchased with cash benefits infringing on a recipients rights?

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Apparently, if you receive food stamps and a welfare check in Louisiana, all of your benefits are put on your Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card. And well...there are businesses that don't sell food, which also accept EBT card payments.

Should companies like the lingerie store be allowed to accept EBT cards when they apply for permission? Or...should the benefit receiver be allowed to buy whatever they want to buy with, which is rightfully, their money once they've received it? Is limiting what is allowed to be purchased with cash benefits infringing on a recipients rights?